The drifting city of the last days

At seven o'clock in the evening, it started to rain outside again.The pattering rain merged into pillars and washed the glass windows of the hotel. It was pitch black at the time when the lights were on, and the world outside the window turned into black patches of different shades in the rain, like an abstract painting painted on canvas. The paintings are full of suffocating oppression and solemnity.

"Okay, now let's make tonight's duty list." Shao Yunfan spoke first after hastily eating dinner.Seeing that the power of the phone was lower than 50.00%, he habitually took out the power bank to charge the phone.As a mobile phone addict, whenever I see the battery cursor in the upper right corner is lower than half, I will feel a strong sense of insecurity in my heart, which can only be relieved by restoring the percentage on the cursor to more than two-thirds.Shao Yunfan rubbed his phone with a sad expression. It has been three days, and Ms. Luo will be worried if she doesn't receive his call?Have you heard about the accident here through TV or the news?Let's hope she and Dad don't worry too much.

"The six of us can be divided into two groups, three groups, or six groups." From a numerical point of view, these division methods are relatively reasonable. Qi Liang looked at Luo Zhen, and he had the most say in which grouping plan he would choose in the end.

"Divided into two groups, Xiao Bu and I are in a group, Shen Nan is in a group, you, Kaka, and Wu Fei are in a group. The bedroom, the outer hall, and the outer door must be guarded. They will be rotated every two hours." Luo Zhen pointed Go to the outer door of the suite. "Pay special attention to the outer door. When the ventilation and air-conditioning outlets cannot enter, they may go around to the corridor and bite the door from the outside. When they find the situation, wake everyone up immediately. Whether it is rest or On duty, everyone is to protect the vitals of the neck with a scarf or hoodie."

Shen Nan looked around, everyone listened to Luo Zhen's arrangement carefully without any doubts.It seemed that Luo Zhen had won everyone's conviction when he was febrile and drowsy.

Shen Nan's body was still relatively weak, Luo Zhen asked him to take care of the air conditioner in the bedroom and the vent in the bathroom inside, Shao Yunfan was in charge of the air conditioner in the outer hall and the vent in the bathroom, and he himself was in charge of the outer door.

As soon as it got dark, the temperature dropped by at least another three or four degrees. Shao Yunfan, who was on the first shift, sat on the single sofa, wrapped in a blanket, and tried to wrap himself as airtight as possible.Luo Zhen was sitting on the carpet a few steps away from him with his back against the wall, opposite to the mini bar at the door.In order to save the power of the mobile phone, they quickly turned off the flashlight, and they could only see the outline of each other in the faint light.

"Isn't it cold?" Shao Yunfan pouted at the shadow sitting on the ground, pulled out the sofa cushion from behind and threw it over.Luo Zhen caught it with one hand and tucked it under his body. He has never been too afraid of the cold.

Shao Yunfan pulled the blanket with the pattern of big peony flowers on his body again tightly, just like this, most of the heat that was accumulated just now dissipated.There were still two pieces of warm baby in the suitcase, and he was not willing to use them after being trapped in the hotel.

The night is as cool as water, and everything is silent.Only the sound of rain falling outside the window.

Shao Yunfan stared in the direction of the air conditioner in a daze. In fact, he couldn't see clearly at all, and looking there was just a subconscious movement.

This kind of time is particularly difficult, that kind of waiting in fear stretches every second in the darkness extremely long, making people flustered and unstoppable.Are those rats hiding somewhere and watching them with their blood-red eyes?Is the passageway already densely packed with rats?

The more Shao Yunfan thought about it, the more his scalp became numb and his hairs stood on end.

"Hey, are you up?" He whispered to Luo Zhen who was not far away, trying to distract himself by talking.

"Are you scared?" Luo Zhen's voice seemed to have a hint of a smile.

"You are afraid! I am not afraid of the dark!"

"I also remember that you are not afraid of the dark, you are only afraid of bugs. By the way, are you still afraid of bugs now?"

"It's not that I'm afraid, it's that I hate it!" I hate it more than I hate you!Shao Yunfan stared at Luo Zhen's direction and cursed.

Luo Zhen raised the corners of his mouth silently, it seemed that he was still afraid.Shao Yunfan was most afraid of cockroaches when he was a child, followed by moths.Once, I was frightened by a three to four centimeter long sandy yellow moth and fell into the open-air swimming pool of the community. When I was rescued, I was still crying.Luo Zhen still remembers the row of crystal clear teardrops hanging on Shao Yunfan's long curled black eyelashes.For things like snakes that most people are afraid of, Shao Yunfan is not afraid at all.

In the darkness, some pale green fluorescence flashed in front of Luo Zhen, so faint that Shao Yunfan almost thought it was his own illusion.

"What?" Shao Yunfan sat up straight.

"what happened?"

"I seem to see something flying towards you! It's very small, similar to the rhinestones on your gloves, light green." Shao Yunfan tried hard to recall.

Luo Zhen frowned, stood up slowly, checked his body carefully, even took off his coat, but still couldn't find what Shao Yunfan said.

"Could it be my illusion?" Shao Yunfan bit his lip, feeling a little less confident at the moment.

Luo Zhen put on his coat and sat down on the cushion again. "It's okay, just be careful."

"Hey, I didn't mean to trick you."

"I know, your acting skills are not that good." Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows in Shao Yunfan's direction clearly.

Depend on!How do you know that Lao Tzu's performance class is the worst!Shao Yunfan glared at him bitterly, and fell back on the sofa.

After an unknown amount of time, Shao Yunfan saw that green fluorescence again, this time he could see clearly that the green light disappeared in front of Luo Zhen's chest.

"On your chest!" Shao Yunfan whispered.

Luo Zhen looked at his chest. He was wearing the short down jacket that Shao Yunfan dug out yesterday. The dark blue down jacket almost melted into the night, and he couldn't see the light green fluorescent thing Shao Yunfan said at all. .Unzip the zipper, and inside is a red fleece pullover sweater. In addition to the embroidered logo on the chest, it is the drawstring hanging from the hat.Further inside is the safe money hanging on the T-shirt and red string.

Luo Zhen's heart moved, and he pulled out the ancient coin.In the night, the whole body of the copper coin glowed with faint light, flickering like breathing.If it weren't for such a dark situation around, it would be impossible to find it at all.

"What?" Shao Yunfan frowned and looked at the thing Luo Zhen took out.Luminous things are not uncommon, but things with their own flash rhythm are rare.

Luo Zhen hooked the corner of his mouth, "Ping An money."

"You mean...my one?"

"Correct."

"You still have it?"

"Never left. It saved my life."

"Save your life?"

"Help me block a bullet." Even if he couldn't see it, Luo Zhen could still know the surprise in Shao Yunfan's clear and bright eyes at the moment.He couldn't help rubbing the ancient coin with his thumb and index finger habitually, and there was an obvious dent on it.

"bullet!"

"Don't worry, the bullet didn't penetrate." Shao Yunfan's worried tone warmed Luo Zhen's heart.

"Why worry? My grandfather said that the copper coin is worth six figures, and now you have cheated it, and the value will be depreciated by at least [-]." Shao Yunfan said distressedly.

Luo Zhen: …………………

"I've never heard that copper can emit light?" Shao Yunfan looked at the ancient coin in confusion.

"Did your grandfather say anything to you when he gave it to you?"

"I can't remember clearly, but I said that I went to some Taoist priest to ask for it specially, and hung it on my body to ward off evil spirits and keep safe. By the way, it seems to be a money spent in the Song Dynasty. After you snatched it away, you even scolded me." , Said I was a prodigal son."

Song Dynasty?Luo Zhen held the copper coin, so it is likely that this copper coin has been handed down for nearly 1000 years.In the hands of a Taoist priest?Is there really a so-called failure of mana in it?

"Otherwise, try dripping some blood on it." Shao Yunfan shook his legs nonchalantly, "I heard that magical artifacts are recognized by dripping blood."

"It has been stained with my blood more than once, if you want to admit it, you would have already recognized it." Luo Zhenyun said calmly.

Shao Yunfan's trembling legs stopped, what kind of life did Luo Zhen live in the United States?

At this time, the flickering light on the ancient coin also disappeared.Luo Zhen turned on the flashlight, held it over and over and studied for a long time.He has played with this ancient coin countless times when he missed Shao Yunfan since he was a child, and the patterns and patterns on it are very clear.On the front, the pattern is basically divided into two by the round hole in the middle of the copper coin. On the left is an old man with a long beard and slightly closed eyebrows. And a strange horse with a single horn on its forehead was coming towards him from two directions.The patterns are detailed and lifelike.Right above the round hole, there were originally four cast characters circled in a frame. The bullet was hitting this position, and now it has turned into a pothole.He vaguely remembered the word "Heluo" among those four characters.The pattern on the back is two concentric circles, the circle close to the round hole is divided into twelve grids, and the twelve earthly branches are written. The outer large circle is the corresponding pattern of the twelve zodiac signs, which is very finely cast.Long-term rubbing has polished the copper color in many places as bright as gold.

There was a faint scream from downstairs, and the mouse ran into no one knew where it was.Luo Zhen, who was looking at the ancient coins, looked a little chilly, and stuffed them back into his clothes. Now is not the time to study this. The "negligent" Shao Yunfan also turned his attention back to the place he was in charge of.

Fortunately, their room was not infested with rats that night.

At 08:30 in the morning, Luo Zhen finished two hundred push-ups and went to the window to check.It was still cloudy outside, and there was no rescue team within sight of the sky and water.At this time, 77 hours had passed since the tsunami, and his brows were tightly wrinkled.

After all the sleep-buying people in the room got up and had breakfast, Luo Zhen looked around and made a suggestion, "Starting today, how about everyone learning martial arts with me?"

"Fighting technique?" Shao Yunfan was stunned.

"It's not safe in the hotel now. All the animals have become fiercer than before. Learning some self-defense skills will give you a better chance of surviving." Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows.The six people here are all men, except for Shao Yunfan, Shen Nan and Wu Fei are considered to be in good physical condition, Kaka is fat, and Qi Liang is short and thin. In real situations, they are the most dangerous.I can't guarantee to stay by their side all the time, so teaching some fighting skills will always give them more ability to protect themselves.

"I am willing!" Wu Fei raised his hand first.He had wanted to learn for a long time, but it was a pity that he just took a horse stance the day before yesterday, and was delayed because of an accident yesterday.

"I am willing too." Qi Liang looked at Luo Zhen sincerely with his big round eyes, he fully understood Luo Zhen's intention.

Shen Nan and Kaka also gritted their teeth and nodded, asking for help is better than asking for themselves, even if they are at the bottom of the food chain, they can't sit still.

Everyone in the room was listening attentively to Luo Zhen's explanation of punching skills, when someone knocked hurriedly on the outer door of the suite.

Qi Liang, who was closest to the door, saw Luo Zhen nodding, and went to answer the door.

The person who knocked on the door was wearing a brown down jacket, which looked familiar. Wu Fei blinked, as if he was the one who started the meeting for Manager Xu that day.Behind him stood three tall young men, who seemed to be headed by him.

"Those who are afraid of mice can go to the meeting room on the seventeenth floor tonight. Boss Lei said that he is in charge of guarding."

"Boss Lei can take care of so many of us by himself?" Qi Liang blinked his eyes with a pure face.

"Of course not only Boss Lei, but also Brother Zhang, Brother Li and Sister Sun." The man looked at him proudly.

"All four of them have become stronger?"

The man smiled, "You are smart. Boss Lei is so powerful now that he can lift three adults with one arm. Brother Zhang's hearing is top-notch. He can hear the footsteps of mice tens of meters away. Brother Li's speed Faster than those rats, Sister Sun can release poison, with the four of them working together, we can naturally protect everyone."

Qi Liang suddenly realized and nodded, "What does Boss Lei need?"

Seeing Qi Liang on the road, the man smiled even more happily, "If you have valuables or food, just hand over what Boss Lei likes."

After he finished speaking, he stretched his head and looked inside, and saw that the room was full of young men, and added, "If you want, you can also join Lei Ge's guard team, and help Lei Ge protect everyone like us." Young They are the most welcome people who are strong and not dragged down.

Qi Liang smiled gently, "Let's discuss it, thank you."

The man waved his hand and directed the people behind him to knock on the door next door.

Boss Ray?Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows. Could this Mr. Lei be the one who took Manager Xu away?Four Enhancers formed an alliance so quickly?

"Would you like to go over and have a look?" Qi Liang closed the door, looked at the crowd questioningly, and finally landed on Luo Zhen.

"What do you think?" Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows and asked back.Everyone found a place on the sofa or the armrest of the sofa, and automatically entered the meeting mode around the coffee table.When encountering a problem, it is always better to discuss it.

"According to the information we know, there are at least six enhanced human beings in different directions among the hotel guests. It is not ruled out that there will be a second or even a third alliance group in the future. Even if we don't plan to go there for the time being, we will We should understand their general situation and strength. After all, in the end we only have three positions to choose from, attachment, neutrality, and hostility. No matter which one is, there is no harm in knowing more information." Qi Liang analyzed seriously.

Wu Fei and Shao Yunfan huddled together on a single sofa, and pointed to Qi Liang at the empty armrest on the right, signaling that he could sit there.Regarding the content of Qi Liang's speech, he was a little careless.For him, it is enough to listen to Shen Nan and Shao Yunfan for this kind of matter.Why waste that brain.

Sitting on the couch, Shen Nan frowned and looked at Qi Liang, "Actually, I wanted to ask you yesterday, are you really just an ordinary freshman?" Facing the current situation, Qi Liang remained calm. His analytical ability is even better than that of a man who has been in the adult world for seven years. Yesterday's tirade about viruses is really not like an ordinary teenager.

"Of course." Qi Liang blinked.

"Then you are a genius." Kaka, who was sitting on the couch with Shen Nan, pouted, he felt the same way as Shen Nan.

"IQ168 can't be called an absolute genius." Qi Liang looked at them seriously.

168?Several people in the room looked at Qi Liang in surprise, don't normal people live in the 90~120 frequency band? 168 is not a genius?

Shao Yunfan rolled his eyes at Luo Zhen who was opposite, he remembered that this annoying ghost seemed to be beyond the range of 120.Luo Zhen met his gaze with a tacit understanding, raised his eyebrows, and Shao Yunfan turned his face away in disgust.

"I really want to curse that your height will stay at 168 forever." Kaka's eyes are full of envy and hatred, show off party please respect yourself, serious show off party please respect yourself even more!

"I'm 171 centimeters now." Qi Liang reminded him.

Kaka: ……………

Everyone's discussion quickly came to a conclusion, and Luo Zhen and Qi Liang followed the brown down jacket to the [-]th floor to check the situation.Qi Liang has a good brain, and Luo Zhen has the highest force value among them. This combination can not only ensure that they can obtain information to the greatest extent, but also relatively guarantee the safety of the two of them.

Luo Zhen's fighting skills class was interrupted, but he didn't let go of the four people who stayed in the house. He asked Shao Yunfan and the others to do at least a hundred push-ups before he came back.Except for Shao Yunfan who gave him a disgusted look, Shen Nan, Wu Fei and Kaka all nodded without any objection.

Luo Zhen thought for a while, took the Ping An money off his neck, and put it in Shao Yunfan's hand, "Research it when you have time." If this thing is really useful, he would feel at ease next to Shao Yunfan.

The ancient coin carried Luo Zhen's body temperature, and the tentacles were warm. Shao Yunfan was stunned for a moment. He seemed to see some worry in Luo Zhen's eyes just now?When he regained his senses, Luo Zhen had already turned around and walked out of the suite with Qi Liang.

The brown down jacket was talking to the local tyrant in the suite closest to the safe passage, "Okay, at five o'clock in the afternoon, I will find someone to pick you up."

Qi Liang went up to meet him, "Brother, can you take us to the seventeenth floor first?"

The man raised half of his eyebrows and smiled, then glanced at the tall and handsome Luo Zhen behind Qi Liang, "You're a big kid, and you have a lot of eyes. Call me Brother Qian."

Qi Liang nodded kindly and followed behind him.

"Hey, wait, I'm going to take a look too." The local tyrant who was about to close the door heard their conversation, rolled his eyes, and said immediately.

The brown down jacket waved his hand indifferently, "It's up to you, you can just come back together."

"Brother Qian, do you know what's going on now? We've been too scared to leave the house these days." Qi Liang followed closely behind the brown down jacket, asking him with round eyes.The elevator for the safe passage was originally not well lit, and the weather had been cloudy for the past few days, so it was icy and a bit permeable.A group of seven of them walked in the safe passage, and the bustling and bustling occupied most of the stairs, which could be regarded as suppressing the cold feeling.

"Don't mention it, it's really fucking unlucky. The tsunami didn't kill a few people, but the fever killed forty or fifty." The surname Qian obviously knew a lot, and he sighed when he mentioned it, "That's not counting, you just I know that the rats in our building cannibalize people, but in fact, those flying in the sky and swimming in the water are not safe now. Yesterday, a big fish jumped up and killed one of our brothers who came down to fetch water."

"Shark?" The local tyrant followed behind them, and when he heard that someone was killed by a fish, his face paled in fright.

"Shark?" Brother Qian rolled his eyes at him, "I don't think the sharks may survive if they swim here now. Just pray that those things in the water don't have long legs to climb into the building. Otherwise, even Boss Lei may not be able to survive." I can't protect so many people."

"Brother Qian, I heard that besides Boss Lei and the others, there is a flat-headed man whose nails can grow longer?" Qi Liang brought the topic back to the right track.

"Do you know the surname is Han?" The brown down jacket raised his eyebrows in surprise, his expression a little wary.

"I went to the duty room yesterday and heard it from someone there." Luo Zhen answered in a calm tone.

He looked at Luo Zhen researchingly, "Boy, you are quite courageous, dare to go to the duty room by yourself."

"He used to be a special soldier abroad." Qi Liang deliberately explained.In order not to let these people underestimate them, there must be a bargaining chip.

"Yo! I didn't see it, my little brother is so extraordinary." The brown down jacket was really surprised this time, not only him, but everyone looked at Luo Zhen in surprise.

"Okay, if you want to know the news about strengthening people, I'll tell you, anyway, it's not a secret." The person surnamed Qian narrowed his eyes, "But there is one thing, you have made up your mind to join Boss Lei If you want to, you have to come to me." In his opinion, it must be a matter of time before these people come to Boss Lei.

Qi Liang nodded with a pure face, and introduced the current situation in the brown down jacket.As far as he knows, about 120 people died of fever and attacks by man-eating rats.At present, there are about 50 surviving guests in the entire hotel, and seven of them are known to have become more severe.In addition to Boss Lei and the four of them, there is also a man named Han whose nails can extend more than a foot, sharper than a dagger, and a man named Zhou who can emit white mucus, which is more evil than 502 glue.There is also one who is said to be able to break the table with one punch. Although he is not as powerful as Lei Laoda, it should be strengthened.He had met both Han and Zhou, but the two of them liked to be alone and didn't respond to Boss Lei's alliance invitation.Only the last one, who has not met yet.

Qi Liang and Luo Zhen glanced at each other, they had seen each other, they were on the 21st floor just now, and they must have knocked on Wang Qi's door with the surname Qian.It's just that they don't know the identity of the other party.Seven enhancers, exactly match the number Luo Zhen heard from the doctor!

Qi Liang and Luo Zhen walked for about half an hour, when suddenly there was a burst of extremely loud shouts outside.The four people who had done a hundred push-ups were lying on the mattresses and sofas in the outer hall to lift up their dead bodies. They were all taken aback when they heard the sound.Wu Fei sat up hastily, and looked at Shao Yunfan who was playing with ancient coins with a panicked expression, "Brother, what's the sound outside?"

Shao Yunfan propped himself up from the mattress, put the ancient coins around his neck casually, ran to the door and opened the peephole to look outside, only to find that Fatty Zhao was looking west with the door half open.

"Brother Zhao, what's the matter?" Seeing that the other party opened the door, Shao Yunfan also opened the door, and while greeting Fatty Zhao in a low voice, he followed his gaze to the west corridor.

On the entire 21st floor, there are only 12 luxury suites, with odd numbers facing south and even numbers facing north, each with six rooms.Shao Yunfan and Wu Fei originally lived in 2703 and 2705 respectively. Kaka then asked Manager Xu to change to room 2707, which is the room the six of them live in now.The smaller the number, the closer to the elevator shaft on the east side, and the larger the number, the closer to the safe passage on the west side. The location of 2707 is basically the middle of the entire corridor on the 21st floor.

"I don't know either." Fatty Zhao replied kindly, with a puzzled expression on his face.

The noise was obviously coming from the safety passage, but unfortunately they couldn't see anything except the half-open safety door.If you want to know what's going on, you have to go to the exit of the safe passage at least.Fatty Zhao and Shao Yunfan were hesitating whether to go there, the door of 2710 was also opened, Wang Qi looked at them, "What's going on?"

"There must be something going on downstairs." Fatty Zhao pointed to the exit of the safe passage.

"Go and have a look." Wang Qi took the lead towards the exit of the safe passage, and Fatty Zhao immediately followed.

Wu Fei squeezed beside Shao Yunfan and looked out curiously while holding the door frame, but was forced back by Shao Yunfan's head. "Brother Shen, I'll go with them to the safe passage." With Wang Qi around, it should be considered safe.

"I'll go with you." Shen Nan signaled Kaka to take Wu Fei back, and followed Shao Yunfan out, he couldn't let Shao Yunfan go out alone.

Walking into the safe passage, the voice below became clearer again, and Shao Yunfan vaguely heard "I found out first!" "Mine." It seemed that two groups were fighting for something.There seemed to be someone on the nineteenth floor going up.Fatty Zhao tilted his head and looked down from several angles along the handrail of the stairs, then turned his head and said to Wang Qi, "The quarrel seems to be around the seventh or eighth floor."

Shao Yunfan frowned. He remembered that the stagnant water downstairs was around the sixth floor. It had been raining for the past two days, and the water only rose and never receded. The seventh and eighth floors should be the closest to the water surface. Could it be something in the water? ?

"They may have fished something out of the water." Shao Yunfan shared his guess with Wang Qi and Shen Nan.

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